[OT]: Prison Breaks

Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers. Escaped Alcatraz in 1962 on a raft made of raincoats. Never found. That's the most classic prison break story in my mind.

Andy Dufresne got it right in Shawshank Redemption but he also had close to a million dollars (in 1960s money) to work with.

Think of the movie The Fugitive. They’re going to know everyone you’ve ever spoken to for the past decade you were free and they’d probably be staked out in front of all those contacts residences waiting for you to show up.

When you left prison if you had someone else’s ID you could immediately take over, then somehow get on a plane headed to a country that has a no extradition agreement you may have a shot. Or maybe if you could cross the Canadian or Mexican border within 8 hours of your escape that may buy you some time.

Years ago I read on article in GQ about how people would commit life insurance fraud in other countries. They would stage their death, their wife would come back to the United States and collect the millions of dollars in multiple life insurance policies and then go off to somewhere like Thailand and lay low. They could never enter the US again, they could never contact their relatives in the US - even email is forbidden. Seems great right? Although there’s dozens of people searching for you, a lot of them retired FBI agents, and most of the people that commit this fraud are eventually caught. The people who discover the fraudsters are rewarded a significant portion of the insurance funds that are recovered so it’s worth their effort to find you.

Another excellent prison escape movie - “The Next Three Days” which stars Russell Crowe in a realistic portrayed movie about Crowes character helping his wife escape from prison who is played by Elizabeth Banks.

I read they caught one of the fugitives in downtown New Orleans because he walked in front of a security camera. Facial recognition technology found him. I was surprised they shared that info, because it clues fugitives as to what not to do.
. In the screen grab from the jail escape, one inmate appeared to be wearing a dress. I couldn't figure that out.

Escape at Dannemora great movie/ miniseries …. true story. Inside help, female guard was giving sexual favors to inmates and helped Them escape

"Midnight Express." Based on a true story of Billy Hayes trying smuggle Hash out of Turkey, and he did escape. Giorgio Moroder did the soundtrack. The movie did take a lot of "Hollywood liberties", Hayes was real and did escape.